Weishan Hill, bed 12 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Hebei, China (39.8° N, 118.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 141.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Drepanura-Liostracina trilobite zone, Kushan Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• samples Tzwh9/Tzwh10 of bed 12 (8 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• inter-tidal barrier and restricted marine environment
• purplish red medium-bedded edgewise limestones, with a bed of purplish brown limestone on the top and intercalated with a few lenticular limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: Z. L. Zhu and H. W. Wittke. 1989. Upper Cambrian trilobites from Tangshan, Hebei Province, North China. Palaeontologia Cathayana 4:199-259 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129589: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2012, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Lichida - Damesellidae
unclassified
  -
Trilobita
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909
Trilobita
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Blackwelderia octaspina Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
Teinistion sp. Monke 1905 trilobite
"Drepanura sp." = Neodrepanura Özdikmen 2006 trilobite
  - Monkaspididae
Liaoningaspis sp. Chu 1959 trilobite
Walcottaspidella cf. suni Chu 1959 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Liostracinidae
Liostracina krausei Monke 1903 trilobite
Conodonta
  - Amphigeisinidae
"Prooneotodus tenuis" = Phakelodus tenuis
"Prooneotodus tenuis" = Phakelodus tenuis Muller 1959 conodont
 Paraconodontida -
Westergaardodina sp. Müller 1959 conodont
 Paraconodontida - Furnishinidae
 Paraconodontida -
Furnishina furnishi Muller 1959 conodont